First Week of the Semester

Classes have started at PIU  for the Spring 2011 semester. We are actually into the second week of the semester now. We have new students, new staff (Sarah Cain our new media person who is here for the next few weeks took all the photos that are in this post - you may have noticed the increased quality of the photos over what is usually here! :) and we are starting new classes. We are looking forward to what God will do here this semester!

The best thing about the new semester is that the students are back. We lost a few due to graduation (yea!) and to other reasons (sad!) but our student numbers are about the same this semester as last. We have several new students and are looking forward to getting to know them a little better.

It is also great to get back into the routine of going to chapel. I enjoy having to take a full hour twice during my busy week to worship, focus on God and be encouraged from the Word and the fellowship of the students. We had two especially good chapels for the first week. On Tuesday, Dr. Tanmay Pramanik from TRACS spoke on the urgency of spreading the good news of God's Kingdom by our words and actions. On Friday, Jake Ngiraiblosch, a Palauan pastor from Susanville and father of PIU student Lindsey encouraged us with his testimony of how God took someone who was "imperfect and worthless" and used him for great things. Jake was one of my students in Palau back in 1985 and I am really blessed to be partnering with him now in ministry. The VOM also provided some music for us.

I also could not resist the temptation to include a few pictures of my family that Sarah shot. Our grand-kids enjoy being on the campus almost every day to play with the other campus kids and they enjoy hanging out with the college kids too. I enjoy the family atmosphere we have on campus with so many kids running around.